All those non-Muslim imams such as Pope Francis and John Kerry who have so confidently assured us of the contrary should make their way to Linz and explain to this fellow how he is misunderstanding the religion he has dedicated his life to understanding.
“Jihadist trial: Islam expert took sermons apart,” translated from “Jihadisten-Prozess: Islam-Experte nahm Predigten auseinander,” Nachrichten, May 5, 2021 (thanks to Medforth):
LINZ. The lectures of the accused preacher are “not to be regarded as part of binding Islamic teaching,” said the expert. The accused protested verbatim.
In the Linz jihadist trial, in which three men are sitting in the dock for the crime of subversive association, Ednan Aslan, professor of Islamic religious education at the University of Vienna, spoke as an expert on Wednesday.
He examined a total of four of the numerous sermons for Friday prayers in the Linz Association. He analyzed them according to whether they represented a recruitment of fighters for jihad in Syria, “supported the Islamic State,” and were directed against the Republic of Austria.
His interpretation of the content presented in the sermons, which was based on the Koran: The law of God is to be enforced. All who opposed it were enemies and were to be fought against. Anger is also a characteristic of God. To portray Islam as a religion of peace is wrong. It is an offensive religion. Military action should be taken against its enemies and fear and terror should be spread among them.
The enemies would only wait for weaknesses of the Muslims. They themselves are responsible if they do not live the true faith. According to the expert report, the accused also criticized those leaders who were traitors and deceivers and who, for example, allow women to be unveiled. He directed an urgent warning to the Muslim listeners against affection for non-believers, even if they showed good will, as well as against Christians and Jews. Westernization has corrupted these people through alcohol, homosexuality, sexual relationships with animals and women who are made to work. An explicit distancing from democracy and the secular constitutional state in Austria had not been pronounced, but could be deduced. An unambiguous direct recruitment to participate in jihad or a specific call to terror could not be inferred from the lectures.
The preacher did not name Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, but praised a man who sacrificed his enormous fortune and life for Islam. The defendant has rejected the criticism of the Islamist militia Boko Haram in Nigeria. Their hostage-taking is legitimate as a prerequisite for an exchange of prisoners.
Overall, it was a radical Islamist ideology, was the assessment of the expert. The preacher internalized it and wanted to bring it to fruition. This is “not to be seen as part of the binding Islamic teaching” and also does not correspond to the attitude of the Islamic Faith Community in Austria (IGGÖ), Aslan emphasized.
The preacher’s defense lawyer asked the expert whether four lectures by many of his clients would be sufficient for an overall assessment and pointed out that essential allegations of anti-state sentiments mentioned in the indictment had not been specifically expressed. Then the defendant took the stand. In it and in questions to the expert he explained his interpretation of the sermons. The presiding judge had to slow him down several times because he spoke too quickly for the minutes. He also stated again that this was not a hearing on Islamic issues.
CogitoErgoSum says
Islam is not a religion of peace. It is a religion of deception, lies and deception and more lies and more deception – topped off with a strong dose of fear.
tim gallagher says
Occasionally the truth seeps out. But anyone who looks at the murderous history of Islam, all the bloodthirsty Muslim invasions of countries, all the hideous, murderous behaviours imposed on the populations who were conquered by the Muslim scum, would know that islam is about as violent an ideology as has ever poisoned mankind. There can be no excuse for people like this present day Pope and all the other imbecilic clowns who suck up to Islam and lie to us and try to get us to believe that islam is peaceful. Yeah, Islam is peaceful and pigs might fly and I have a unicorn that lives at the bottom of my garden. Seriously, these people who tell us that islam is peaceful have shit for brains. No other explanation is possible, unless they are actually being paid bribes by the Muslims to spread such bullshit..
Keith O says
Tim, Islam uses the same principle that Joseph Goebbels, Hitlers propaganda minister used.
He said, “if you tell a lie often enough and with enough voracity, it will become the truth”.
We see it all the time in Islam, marketing and we use it ourselves a lot.
Think about it, how often have we kept telling ourselves “I love my job, I love my job”?
tim gallagher says
Yeah, Keith O, what you say seems to be true. At least the people who comment here at Jihad Watch don’t buy this crap about Islam being peaceful. It is good to interact with people who don’t buy that sort of garbage. I see islam as being on the same level of evil and violence as Nazism is. And I don’t hear anyone trying to tell us that Nazism is peaceful, and quite rightly so. But there are lots of people trying to tell us that islam is peaceful. There is a bizarre type of blindness going on when it comes to Islam, that’s for sure. What you say about boring jobs and having to tell ourselves that such jobs are better than they really are rings true. Personally, I’m glad to be retired from work and I can do what actually interests me these days.
Keith O says
Tim, Know what you mean about retirement. Mine wasn’t by choice, Got put on the gold card by veterans affairs, busted up body.
But then we get to have a window into the world that really lets us know how twisted it really is!
tim gallagher says
Keith, I did some jobs that were reasonably interesting, but also plenty of tedious , very boring jobs. I can’t say I miss those jobs. Sorry your health isn’t that good. I’m in my seventies now, so I am also getting some aches and pains, though nothing too bad so far.
gravenimage says
Sorry this happened to you, Keith.
mortimer says
Disagree with KO’s implication that Muslims consciously understand that they are lying. The teaching of taqiyya simply means that Muslims have no concern for truth. Islam’s ethical structure is OPPORTUNISM.
Like Leftists, Muslim have no concern for truth in the promotion of Islam. The only concern is whether a statement increases the power of Islam over non-Muslims, rather than if it is true.
The mullah in this article is telling the truth in order to promote Islam among Muslims by telling them that jihadic warfare against disbelievers is their religious duty.
This mullah endorses the viewpoint of Jihad Watch, namely, that classical Islam supports jihadism.
tim gallagher says
Thanks for the comment, mortimer. Islam seems to me to be totally amoral. This lying is just one more part of its evil nature. To my mind, it is right down there in the gutter, in terms of religions, with the old Aztec religion, with its human sacrifices, etc. I loathe Islam for many reasons. The commands in the Koran to get out there and murder non-believers when the opportunity arises, the pedophilia with its child brides, and so on. That report a couple of days back here at Jihad Watch about the Muslim scumbag raping some young girl in Pakistan and converting her and saying that he should allowed to keep her is an illustration of how sick and almost unbelievably twisted the Muslim mentality can be. Islam condones this type of sick garbage. I put islam on the level of Nazism although I must say that I do meet the occasional Muslim who (by some strange process) seems OK. Anyway, I can only say that I find Islam appalling and the world would be a far, far better place without it. That Islam finds lying OK is just one more evil aspect to it. AS you say, opportunism rules when it comes to Islam. An amoral, disgusting ideology.
DAVID R MORRISON says
Tim , my sentiments exactly !
We cannot trust ANY follower of that heinous koran !!!
tim gallagher says
Thanks for the comment, DAVID. I certainly don’t trust any Muslims. The Muslims that I find seem to be, at least superficially OK, are people that I don’t know to any great degree, so I don’t trust them. As you say, anyone following that evil book, the Koran, cannot be trusted. A world with Islam fouling it up would be far better. That is something I am sure about.
tim gallagher says
Correction. Of course I meant to write “without Islam fouling it up would be far better”.
Infidel says
Once this preacher is thanked for revealing the truth, he should be extradited to wherever he came from. If he was a native Austrian convert, he should be deported to Bosnia or Kosovo
gravenimage says
He’s only being honest because he is so emboldened he doesn’t think he has to lie any more.
Raja says
Infidel,
On the contrary he should be honored for telling the truth, so that he reveals more of the evil designs of Islam, useful for the West (in its fight against genocide and separatism)
All these are wishful thinking if recent history is any indication so far. If somebody does not toe the official false narrative of Islam he or she can be smeared and vilified. Mr. Robert Spencer has been tagged as conspiracy theorist and so on, just to name one example.
Why don’t you wish that Islam should be eradicated from the face of the earth?
Infidel says
If wishes were horses….
DAVID R MORRISON says
Raja , first , all followers of the koran cannot be trusted to tell the truth !That eradication idea seems like a good plan , though !
Dude says
The dude is so right! It is neither a religion nor about peace.
It is a scam to con people into being a subservient soldier slave society, sworn to the Caliph. Just ‘Follow the money’ – all theology is designed to achieve maximum bandit profit (of which of course the ruling Caliph gets 20% off the top). It produces other crypto-philosophies such as the fantasy payoff: the ultimate life goal of an eternal sex dungeon, to which they cannot be admitted until all the Caliph’s enemies are dead (or unless you were brave enough to die while trying to vanquish his enemies).
Whatever rules or procedures or fantasies that will enhance the booty pot have been added to the playbook to strengthen the scam. Whatever will fasten the suckers to the scam also became part of the story, playing on their egos and fears, catch phrases they all have to repeat many times daily, in everyday ritual.
It may have started in Mecca with religious goals, but after the Medina caravan bandits seized it, there was only pillage left, and ritual just devolved into a sales/indoctrination scheme – for women/children, the bandit support units.
Suddenly God was now encouraging murder, rape, robbery, slavery – as though commandments He had once written in stone had only been a passing fancy, a rough draft. And to cover up the scam, “god” now forbids the reading of His previous scriptures, where there was no Caliph kingpin, no divine thuggery, and no divinely-sanctioned terror.
Follow the money.
gravenimage says
Austria: Muslim cleric preaches that it’s wrong to portray Islam as a religion of peace
……………
The Imam is telling the truth here.
E. T says
Khomeini said “ I spit on the soul of any man who says Islam is a Religion of Peace”.
Friday, August 11, 2006, Papineau Mosque, way back then an Imam said “Fight the Holy War – -God kill all against Allah”.
Why do Imams preach you get double praise for Jihad during Ramadan?
mortimer says
British philosopher Anthony Flew recognized the illogical errors in the “Islamophobia’ slander. He thus admitted that Islam is not a religion of peace and that fear of Islam is a reasonable response to its terrorist ideology of jihad.
“I would never regard Islam with anything but horror and FEAR, because it is fundamentally committed to conquering the world for Islam… it is, I think, best described in a Marxian way as the uniting and justifying ideology of Arab imperialism.”
– Philosopher Anthony Flew was renowned for his work on the philosophy of religion
Raja says
Mortimer,
I also agree that Isamophobia is a slander and a taunt, a taunt the to silence the opposition and to submission. There is nothing the Islamic think tank does not do to keep the subhuman kafirs on the hook.
Good post
Andrew Blackadder says
The islamic hate preacher in the UK years ago, Choudry, admitted that islam has never been a religion of peace, and he explained that islam means submission, and islam has conquered the unbelievers with the Sword, always have done, and always will do.
Now if i can just get this information over to the feminists movement in various Western Nations we might get somewhere with this islam just loves everybody nonsense and we dont understand because we just cant read Arabic…
Why do these people want to come to the lands they despise, surely it cant be that they either wish to come out of the closet, or become European in thought and deed.
They came to destroy us from within and turn Europe into the garbage society they left..
Thats the plain and simple truth.
E T says
Sayyid Qutb, the revered Islamic scholar said. “Since the objective of the message of Islam is a decisive declaration of man’s freedom, not merely on the philosophical plane but also in the actual conditions of life, it MUST employ Jihad”.
gravenimage says
Calling this “freedom” of course could not be more perverse.
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
Professor of Islam? Everything I needed
to know about Islam I learned on 911.
E T says
Exactly
Michael Copeland says
“Overall, it was a radical Islamist ideology….” (presumably one of several?).
And so it goes on.
This red herring of “radical Islamist” continues to obfuscate the reality.
The reality is that this “radical Islamist ideology” is identical with Islam.